After Opera update websites with flash doesn't work

Question

Website such as https://coub.com doesn't work after opera update.

• Version: 49.0.2725.56 - Opera is up to date
• Update stream: Stable
• System: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (x86_64; Unity)

Running opera from console I found error.

opera MEDIA_ERROR_LOG_ENTRY {"error":"FFmpegDemuxer: open context failed"}

Answer 1

Solution is to replace file libffmpeg.so in the opera directory with the working one.

New way

1. Get ffmpeg

sudo apt install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

2. Replace opera file with our file

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

3. Restart Opera

And every time when Opera will be updated, run

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/

Old way (but stable)

1. Download latest release [version]-linux-x64.zip file from here (or try another release)

2. Find opera directory using which

    user@host:~$ which opera
    /usr/bin/opera
    user@host:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/opera 
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 дек  9 01:04 /usr/bin/opera -> ../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/opera
   

3. Extract file libffmpeg.so from the archive you downloaded.

4. Move lib file to the opera directory sudo cp -f ~/Downloads/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/opera

5. Restart Opera